Strobe <Strobe nyc.Beep!Beep!.com> wrote:

> Is this just me, or is there a general BluRay disk shortage? Did
> the Japan earthquake close a vital media factory?

I was in the megastore today fantasizing about being able to buy
6061 aluminum flat bar there. It is actually common aluminum, but
you can't get it at the local hardware megastore either. However,
you can find plenty of it online, inexpensive and ready to ship.

In other words... Whether there is a shortage of Blu-Ray discs, I
don't know, but have you looked online?

Strobe wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 18:21:15 -0400, "ftran999" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> I'm planning on adding a BR writer to my PC. I plan is to transfer videos
>> shot on my DSLR to BD and give out to friends and family. When I look on
>> Newegg.com I get confused by the different types of BD media BD-R, BD-R DL,
>> BD-RE, BD-RE DL. So If my goal is to author disks playable on both PCs
>> (assuming the user's pc has a BR player) or a standalone BR player which
>> media type should I be looking at.
>
> R is the basic recordable disk - write once (25Gb).
> RE is same but rewriteable, still 25Gig.
> DL means double layer (50Gb)
>
> I saw on the box of a new drive that it claims to be ready to work with
> quad-layer disks - which would be 100GB.
>
> Having just got a BD drive myself, I'm eager to use it for backups and archival
> storage.
> I'm happy to use -R disks for archiving, but backups need to be updated and
> call for erasable disks. However, in my area - New York City - only BD -R and
> BD -R DL are in the local stores; there seems to be an absence of RE disks.
> And a major store in Manhattan had only ONE pack of BD-R disks (compared to
> dozens of spindles of CDs and DVDs)!
>
> Is this just me, or is there a general BluRay disk shortage?
> Did the Japan earthquake close a vital media factory?
>

It's curious.

I checked Staples, and they had a single BD-RE disc for around $13. The
Memorex was listed as out of stock.

http://www.staples.ca/ENG/Catalog/ca...affixedcode=WW

You get a better price here, but the one review for the product, complains
about a high (relative) shipping charge. So if you wanted to get them this
way, you'd probably want to get a few to amortize shipping. (That's assuming
they give you a break. Some companies are swine when it comes to shipping.)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817130133

And it's $31 for a BD-RE DL dual layer 50GB.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817131080

"Perfect

Pros: The only 50GB BD-RE disc available that I could find! On average,
about 90 minutes to burn 45-50GB using Nero.

Cons: My set-top blu-ray player does not always play content from this disc."

We'll have to check those satellite photos, and see if there are any
boxes of BD-RE discs floating in the Pacific and headed for North America :-)

HTH,
Paul